All Quotes

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
‐‐ James A. Forbes

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
‐‐ Jess Row

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.
‐‐ Rob Zombie

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
‐‐ John Polkinghorne

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
‐‐ Phillip Noyce

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
‐‐ Rosa Parks

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
‐‐ David Coverdale

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
‐‐ Arthur Hugh Clough

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.
‐‐ Bobby Brown

Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.
‐‐ Chris D'Elia

Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald are my musical mothers. I learned everything I know about true R&B, pop and jazz singing from these stunning performers and unparalleled musicians.
‐‐ Ciara Renee

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
‐‐ Ferdinand de Saussure

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What's the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
‐‐ Jacques d'Amboise

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

Who am I to blow against the wind?
‐‐ Paul Simon

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
‐‐ Ivan Turgenev

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
‐‐ David Sax

Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
‐‐ Aeschylus

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?
‐‐ Stan Freberg

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.
‐‐ David Gerrold

Who are we to judge somebody for who he's allowed to fall in love with?
‐‐ Nina Hagen

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?
‐‐ Matt Bevin

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
‐‐ Carl Sagan

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
‐‐ David Ebershoff

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made?
‐‐ Jonathan King

Who, being loved, is poor?
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?
‐‐ Robert Casey

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
‐‐ Tobias Smollett

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.
‐‐ Richard Rolle

Who buys French cars? Not me.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld